A colleague at work suggested I download Team Fortress 2 since it’s now free on Steam. It requires about 10 gig disk space – I only had about 3.5gig. Scott Hanselman recently wrote a blog post on
Setting Entity State in Dynamics CRM 2011
I had an interesting challenge recently. As part of a Credit Card Payment Solution we are working on, I was trying to set the Invoice State. According to the MSDN documentation, all you need to do is set the Status
Retrieving the Text of an OptionSet in Silverlight
I’ve been pulling my hair out over this. If you look at the Dynamics CRM 2011 SDK, you can see how to get an Entity using FetchXML: Using FetchXML, you can get to an entity like this:
What is Klout?
Recently, Cathie McGinn tweeted: I first heard of Klout during an interview with their CEO Joe Fernandez, on This Week in Startups. So what is it? For me, Klout is a method of measuring who is popular in social media
If the voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line...
I’ve often thought that if you look back through the history of my blog, how would you describe it? With categories like 30 day challenge, Development, Low-carb diets and Photos – probably the kindest thing you could say
The problem with Tekpub...
I like Rob Conery. But he is the sort of guy who just seems to go out of his way to cause trouble… A good example is a post I wrote a couple of years ago. What’s
Home Theater PC
Recently Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror fame, updated his Home Theater PC. I had been thinking of doing the same, so below is my experience. CPU Intel Core i3-2100 Motherboard MSi H67MA-E45 Memory Kingston 4GB DDR3 Standard case + power supply.
When a dirty job is a good job
I was doing some research on Simon Sinek. He writes for AskMen.com and I came across their Top 10 TED Talks. I came across this little gem. It’s a talk by Mike Rowe, from the Dirty Jobs
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